Given the widespread belief that analogical processing is an important mechanism for creative problem solving, but a lack of evidence for spontaneous transfer in laboratory studies, a critical direction for future research ...

Retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) is a consequence of retrieval that produces forgetting of other, previously learned information. Presently, researchers disagree on whether the phenomenon is inhibitory in nature, and ...

Retrieval-induced forgetting is a phenomenon in which the retrieval of an item from
memory causes the forgetting of other related or competing items. This forgetting is thought to
be the consequence of inhibitory processes ...

The ability to remember an item can be blocked, or negatively primed, by exposure to related items. For example, ALLERGY is less likely to be generated given the word fragment A_L_ _GY if one is first exposed to ANALOGY ...

Problems can be difficult to solve because people become fixated by exposure to misleading information, or fixated by misleading prior knowledge. The two instances of fixation feel like they’re qualitatively different, ...